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To: Sully- who wrote (64864)	3/19/2008 3:18:50 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Mormonism is Evil, But Wright's A-OK Jonah Goldberg The Corner From a reader: <<< Hey, at least we get to see the spectacle of the Left suddenly defending religion. That Mitt Romney’s church used to not allow blacks to be ministers proved that Romney was a de facto racist but now they argue Obama’s close personal friend and mentor’s hateful racist anti-Semitic ranting mean nothing? A work of beauty. Too bad that no matter what they say and how little the media chooses to cover this, when Wright’s sermons are turned into campaign ads, it’s all over. >>> corner.nationalreview.com 03/18 09:28 AM

To: Sully- who wrote (64864)	3/19/2008 9:09:29 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

But I trust we will all struggle in our own way to resist the lure of respectable religion that seeks to displace evangelical faith. For what this nation needs is not so much polite piety as the rough and radical word of the prophet calling us to repentance. And, as we struggle with that ancient calling, I pray we will be shrewd enough to name the hypocrisy of those who decry the mixing of religion and politics in order to serve their own political ends. >>> What exactly is this guy trying to say? Their evangelical church is not a respectable religion? That their ministers are calling people to piety through repentance and that in order to do so they must mix politics and religion? And that anyone who decries this mixture(to serve their own political ends) must be called out as as hypocrites....? hmmm. [Geez, hasn't the left been howling about Bush's faith for 8 years?] Frankly, there was nothing I saw in Wright's rhetoric that even remotely suggested a call to piety through repentance. In fact, it was quite the opposite. The call was to assign blame to others and to ratchet up their own anger and sense of victimhood. Not to repent, not to be pious, but to be angry and disaffected. If the word hypocrisy is to be applied at all, I'd have to apply it to ministers who choose to use their pulpits (and thus a mixture of religion and politics) in order to serve their own political (and personal) aims. There are few radical Black ministers in this country who have not made a fortune off their position and the backs of the people they are claiming to help.